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Sold with original Mention in Despatches certificate (dated 30.11.1915) and Infantry Records Office Certificate of Service (dated 2.8.1921).
M.M. London Gazette 6.8.1918.
Private Henry Wallace, M.M., was mobilised in August 1914 and first entered the French Theatre of War in May 1915. Mentioned in Despatches by Sir John French in November of the same year, very probably as a result of the Loos offensive, he was also the recipient of 'Two Gold Wound Stripes' (above Certificate of Service refers). The 7th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders was badly mauled at Delville Wood on the Somme in mid-July 1916, afterwards re-grouping for the Arras offensive in eary 1917 and, more successfully, to repel the German Spring Offensive in 1918, when it counter-attacked at Wytschaete. Probably awarded his M.M. for this latter action, Wallace was finally demobilised in January 1919 and discharged as a Lance-Sergeant in March 1920. He settled at Cowdenbeath in Scotland, sometime thereafter pursuing his T.A. interests with the Black Watch.
M.M. London Gazette 6.8.1918.
Private Henry Wallace, M.M., was mobilised in August 1914 and first entered the French Theatre of War in May 1915. Mentioned in Despatches by Sir John French in November of the same year, very probably as a result of the Loos offensive, he was also the recipient of 'Two Gold Wound Stripes' (above Certificate of Service refers). The 7th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders was badly mauled at Delville Wood on the Somme in mid-July 1916, afterwards re-grouping for the Arras offensive in eary 1917 and, more successfully, to repel the German Spring Offensive in 1918, when it counter-attacked at Wytschaete. Probably awarded his M.M. for this latter action, Wallace was finally demobilised in January 1919 and discharged as a Lance-Sergeant in March 1920. He settled at Cowdenbeath in Scotland, sometime thereafter pursuing his T.A. interests with the Black Watch.